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Pearce rejects "sloppy" league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... potentially inaccurate and misleading." Pearce's comments echo the sentiment from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) which labelled the proposed superannuation league tables a "dangerous compromise". "A single figure trust level ...

Industry unites for super message

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... effect on superannuation and reiterates superannuation as a long term investment. The Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA), Industry Super Network (ISN), Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Association of Financial Advisors (AFA), Australian ...

APRA fund level reporting proposals dangerous

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association has rejected the APRA proposals for how the regulator should disclose fund returns to consumers. In a discussion paper released yesterday, IFSA said, "APRA's plan to publish trust level ROA [return on ...

ASIC extends short selling ban till March

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... found fund managers hold roughly $30 billion in hedge funds. John O'Shaughnessy, Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) deputy chief executive, said IFSA is disappointed with the extension but not surprised considering the events in the ...

IFSA backs govt tax proposal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has thrown its support behind a Treasury proposal to provide an optional capital gains tax roll-over concessions to merging super funds. Under existing rules, if a super fund in a prospective ...

Former State Street head jumps to RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... Association since 2003 and as a board member of the global markets committee of the Investment and Financial Services Association since 2006.

IFSA calls for more frequent valuations of unlisted assets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released a new guidance note to members with 'best practice' recommendations on how to value unlisted assets in the wake of the global financial crisis. The guidance note specifies the principles ...

Move for APRA fund level data gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... to APRA should not be publicly released. Richard Gilbert, chief executive of the Investment and Financial Services Association IFSA), said, "It is good that APRA is now looking at the data it collects, as it can certainly be made more useful to investors ...

ING to develop retirement security products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... develop better retirement security products for super fund members. Speaking at an Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) event, Stout said unexpected investment underperformance, rising inflation and medical enhancements indirectly threatened ...

Aussies rethink super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... three months, a new survey shows. Data from a Newspoll survey conducted on behalf of the Investment Financial Services Association shows that ongoing market volatility has prompted one in five Australians to reconsider their superannuation strategy. ...